OH HB657

Community addiction services providers and office-based opioid treatment providers must assess all patients for tobacco product use at initial intake, using DSM-recommended questions or similar evidence-based guidance

Patients identified with tobacco use disorder must receive information on how continued tobacco use could affect long-term recovery from substance use disorder

Providers must recommend tobacco use disorder treatment in the patient's treatment plan and either offer treatment directly or refer the patient to treatment

"Tobacco product" is broadly defined to include cigarettes, electronic smoking devices, cigars, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, snuff, snus, and any product made from tobacco or containing nicotine intended for human consumption

Amends Ohio Revised Code section 4729.553 and creates new section 5119.369